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Definition of Innyards
1. innyard [n] - See also: innyard
Lexicographical Neighbors of Innyards
Literary usage of Innyards
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Shakespeare's Theater by Ashley Horace Thorndike (1916)
"In the city, however, when the audiences were large, the problem of a sufficiently
ample and inexpensive acting place was first solved by the innyards.1 The ..."
2. The Cambridge History of English Literature by Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller (1910)
"When Elizabeth came to the throne, the usual places of public theatrical performance
in London were certain'innyards. An account written in 1628 enumerates ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"... which was founded not on any classical model, but on the innyards, in which
the actors had been accustomed to play. The stage was literally a stage — a ..."
4. The Gentleman's Magazine (1874)
"the “short stages” which used to start from the White Horse Cellar, the Green
Man and Still, and the old Holborn innyards, and of which you will find ..."
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